Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters

This new collection presents the best new interpreter teaching techniques, proven by the eminent contributors of this book. This is the second volume in the "Interpreter Education series," and picks up where Innovative Practices for Teaching Sign Language Interpreters left off. Cynthia B. Roy; 232 pages; hard cover Dennis Cokely discusses revising curricula in the new century based upon experiences at Northeastern University.Jeffrey E. Davis delineates how to teach interpreters observation techniques.Elizabeth Winston and Christine Monikowski suggest how discourse mapping can be considered the Global Positioning System of translation.Laurie Swabey proposes ways to handle the challenge of referring expressions.Melanie Metzger describes how to learn and recognize what interpreters do in interaction.Jemina Napier contributes information on training interpreting students to identify omission potential.Robert G. Lee explains how to make the interpreting process come alive.Mieke Van Herreweghe discusses turn-taking and turn-yielding in meetings with Deaf and hearing participants.Anna-Lena Nilsson defines "false friends," or how contextually incorrect use of facial expressions with certain Swedish Sign Language signs can be detrimental influences.Kyra Pollitt and Claire Haddon provide recommendations on retraining interpreters in the art of telephone interpreting.